Software Engineer II - CTJ - Poly

Software Engineer II - CTJ - Poly

United States, Washington, Redmond

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Job description

Company and benefits

Job number

200055415

Date posted

Sep 11, 2026

Work site

3 days / week in-office

Travel

Less than 25%

Profession Software Engineering

Discipline Software Engineering

Role type

Individual Contributor

Employment type

Full-Time

Overview

Join Microsoft’s Microsoft Specialized Cloud Team as a Software Engineer working on one of the most challenging and impactful problems in cloud computing: enabling Azure services in the world’s most secure and regulated environments.

This isn’t your typical cloud engineering role. You’ll be part of an elite team responsible for deploying and operating critical infrastructure in airgapped cloud environments where traditional approaches don’t work. Every system you build must meet the rigorous security and assurance requirements of government and highly regulated customers - work that directly enables national security missions and protects critical infrastructure.

What makes this role unique:

• Real impact: Your code enables secure collaboration and cloud services for customers who can’t use public cloud
• Technical depth: You’ll master both software engineering and operational excellence - building new services while maintaining production systems that can never go down
• Diverse challenges: One day you’re architecting a new service, the next you’re troubleshooting a production incident, and the next you’re collaborating with partner teams across Microsoft
• Elite environment: Work with cleared engineers who understand both development and operations at the highest levels of technical rigor

If you want to work where software engineering meets operational excellence, where every decision matters, and where you’ll grow faster than you thought possible - this is your team.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Own Service Reliability

• As a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), you’re the first line of defense for our critical services. You’ll monitor systems for degradation, respond to incidents within SLA timeframes, and coordinate with stakeholders during outages. This isn’t just firefighting - you’ll learn to think systematically about reliability and build automation that prevents future incidents.

• Drive Technical Excellence Across Domains

• You’ll contribute to three distinct types of work: building new services, maintaining operational health through break-fix work, and collaborating with partner teams in code bases across Microsoft. This variety means you’ll develop breadth and depth simultaneously - understanding both how to build great software and how to keep it running in production.

• Build Automation and Improve Systems

• Contribute to developing automation for production deployment and operations. You’ll run code in test environments, validate functionality, and progressively build confidence in our deployment processes. Over time, you’ll identify patterns in operational work and automate away toil, freeing the team to focus on higher-value engineering.

• Engineer for Security and Compliance

• Work in an environment where security isn’t an afterthought - it’s the fo